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Post by myangelamanda on Dec 27, 2011 11:19:01 GMT -5
I found this on AOL just now. My heart is so heavy and yet I am also comforted by this boy's videos. It'll take about 5 minutes or so so if you all have time, you have to watch both of them, but be prepared to cry and get a headache from it. As horrible as the entire thing is, I have also found some peace knowing he told a story that we all wonder about with our own children. I hope this is OK to put here. It just helped me so I'm hoping it helps you all. While I was watching it I felt like it was a present from Amanda since so many questions and wonders were answered. www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/27/ben-breedlove-teen-tells-_n_1170854.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl4|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D123210 |
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Post by missingisaiah on Dec 27, 2011 23:41:58 GMT -5
My heart breaks for his family. But I am so glad he took the time to make those videos. I was struck by how just a couple of weeks before he died he wished he had never left that peaceful place. Well, his wish was granted. He's back there and he'll never leave.
Stories like this make me so thankful that Isaiah's death was sudden, unexpected. I don't know if I could have handled leaving each day wondering when my son was going to die.
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Post by myangelamanda on Dec 28, 2011 10:16:25 GMT -5
I also think this is so powerful because he can clearly remember feeling at peace and feeling so happy when he died. It comforts me to know that our children, though gone, really truly were not in any pain and are really at peace where they are now.
I've just been on a mission lately with the absolute "need" to just know that Amanda is happy and wasn't afraid when she was dying. I need to know that she wasn't scared so I've been doing so much searching for people who have actually died and been brought back.
There's a show on the Biography channel about this and I've found it on-line. It's called "I've Survived: Beyond and Back". I'm so thankful there are people, in this world, who are willing to share their experience so people like me can just cling to the comfort of knowing it is not a scary or fearful thing my child had to go through.
I just can't shake it right now, though. It's just a nightmare that won't go away and so it's pretty much all I do on-line these days. My heart is just so heavy for all of us.
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Post by missingisaiah on Dec 28, 2011 21:06:47 GMT -5
A co-worker gave Jam the book today: Heaven is a Real Place. He read some of it on his break and said it's giving him some comfort. It's about a boy not yet 4 who died, went to Heaven, and came back. He vividly described it. He felt no fear at all, just peace and love.
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Post by pamela on Dec 31, 2011 5:48:15 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing this Michele, heartbreaking yes, but what a gift for his family.
I didn't know that the brain still works after death.
I often sit and wonder what Michael's last minutes of life were, he was pronounced at the hospital, but they say he died instantly on the track,so what does that mean, his time of death was wrong? Or since they were doing CPR the whole way to the hospital does that mean he was "technically" still alive.
I have always hated that we can remember every sec of their births, but so little about their deaths.
I hate that we have to be consumed with that, and I hate even more that others will tell us celebrate their life and don't focus on their deaths.
I do hope and pray our children are in a better place, this world is such a hard one to live in....I have to believe the next life has to be better.
thinking of all of you always,
pam
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